USMan steals North Dakota squad car, fatally crashes into semitrailer

22:30 07 may 2019

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A man in North Dakota died after stealing a police squad car in order to flee an arrest and then crashing the vehicle head-on into a semitrailer on Interstate 29 on Monday.

Grand Forks police said officers were making a welfare check at a local business Monday afternoon when they learned the man had an outstanding warrant. When officers tried to arrest the man, he fought back and tried to disarm one of them, breaking the officer’s gun holster.

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At some point, the man crossed the median and drove into the path of a southbound tractor-trailer.

The collision left the semi-truck disabled and partially off the roadway and the patrol vehicle totaled. The suspect died, police said.

Isaac Dahl, who witnessed the fatal crash, told the Grand Forks Herald that he was driving home from work around 5 p.m. when he saw a police car sitting in the ditch, facing west.

“Then he tore out of the ditch like a bat out of hell,” he said. “He just floored it. There was rocks and grass and debris all over the place.”

Police: 5 dead after SUV hits truck in southern Illinois

Police say five people have died after an SUV crashed into the back of a semitrailer along an interstate in southern Illinois. Illinois State Police Trooper Bridget Rice says the crash happened Thursday afternoon near the West Frankfort exit of northbound Interstate 57. The Southern Illinoisan and WSIL-TV report state police confirmed five people died. Rice says one other person was taken to a hospital with injuries that were described as not life-threatening. Names of those involved haven't been released. The Associated Press left a message Friday with state police seeking additional information.

Dahl said he then spotted the patrol vehicle driving northbound at an extremely high rate of speed before watching the vehicle head straight for the semi-truck.

“He made a bee-line straight toward it,” he added. “He just shot…straight at it and hit it.”

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